On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote:
> CNN's story about NBC executives pimping Kelly out right away instead of > letting her earn the nation's trust has some good points. > http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/17/media/megyn-kelly-alex- > jones-rollout/index.html > I have several problems with the Forbes story. No. 1, let her get a couple > of shows under her belt before making conclusions about her. No. 2, Michael > Jackson needed to convince the nation he wasn't a creepy perve. So 60 > Minutes had the upper hand in that situation. Ed Bradley had leverage in > the questions he could ask. Megyn Kelly had to try to get Alex Jones' > confidence and trust before she did her interview. And it sounds like she > wasn't too easy on him, given his reaction. > To your points: #1: She's already digging herself into a hole with these interviews. Last Sunday I turned to NBC during the commercials of whatever I was watching and Kelly was doing a story with a young blond who I think was Ivanka Trump. So for her first 3 weeks, Putin, Ivanka Trump, and Alex Jones. None of them are going to tell the truth. Granted Ivanka Trump is lower stakes, but ask a hard hitting question to Putin or Jones and they will lie to your face to deflect the answer and there is no follow up. I don't care if Kelly wants to do a show that would appeal to conservatives even at the expense of liberals. There are stories she can do that won't hurt her brand and NBC News like these interviews. She can go to Coal Country and talk to people who are hopeful about what this administration is doing. She can talk to people who got a bad deal from the ACA. But if she squanders her credibility with these high profile interviews, she can't get it back later. #2: I know from doing media workshops that an interviewer needs to make their subject feel comfortable before the taping. 60 Minutes got a great reputation for getting people to admit to all kinds of outrageous things because they made the subjects feel comfortable and let them know that all they wanted was for people to tell their stories. People felt that and happily incriminated themselves. There is a vast difference between that and what Kelly did with Jones. I think Jones was going to release his recordings and play the victim no matter what happened in his conversations with Kelly. Kelly is no his adversary, the MSM is, and this is a chance for him to claim dominance. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
